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> [Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/strange-is-the-vigour-in-a-brave-man-s-soul-the-strength-of-his/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

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## More by Thomas Traherne

> [The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-soul-is-shriveled-up-and-buried-in-a-grave-that-does-not-love/)

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> [To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/to-love-one-person-with-a-private-love-is-poor-and-miserable-to-love/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/sleep-is-cousin-german-unto-death-sleep-and-death-differ-no-more-than/)

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> [We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/we-love-we-know-not-what-and-therefore-everything-allures-us/)

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> [The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-world-is-a-mirror-of-infinite-beauty-yet-no-man-sees-it/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/the-sense-itself-was-i-i-felt-no-dross-or-matter-in-my-soul-no-brims/)

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> [I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/i-will-not-by-the-noise-of-bloody-wars-and-the-dethroning-of-kings/)

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> [You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/you-never-enjoy-the-world-aright-till-the-sea-itself-flowers-in-your/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/let-those-parents-that-desire-holy-children-learn-to-make-them/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/love-can-forbear-and-love-can-forgive-but-love-can-never-be/)

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> [How like an angel came I down!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/how-like-an-angel-came-i-down/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

> [You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/you-never-enjoy-the-world-aright-till-the-sea-itself-floweth-in-your/)

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> [Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/is-it-not-strange-that-an-infant-should-be-heir-of-the-whole-world/)

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> [To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/to-think-the-world-therefore-a-general-bedlam-or-place-of-madmen-and/)

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> [As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/as-nothing-is-more-easy-than-to-think-so-nothing-is-more-difficult/)

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